Jacob Rutski

Some time ago, my wife had her phone stolen and we had not setup any sort of backup for the pictures, so a good number of photos and videos of our kids were lost that day. We now both use Google devices, so we have automatic backup to Drive for free, but I didn’t want to rely only on that. Enter Plex Camera Upload We use Plex a lot in our house – one of … Read more…

Duo Security provides a rich identity management and authentication platform and it is commonly used to enable multi-factor authentication in enterprise networks. Duo is very flexible and has examples for integrating with NetScaler here – you will see that there are two different configuration examples: one for using the Duo auth proxy service to do AD authentication as well as additional factors, and a second for using the Duo service to do just MFA. Both of … Read more…

In case you hadn’t noticed, lots of web services have been changing how they do authentication lately…maybe you’ve heard of some of them: Google …or Microsoft What is really going on here? The forms are applying some intelligence based on who you are or what company you work for. For example, if you work for a company that uses federated authentication for Office 365, you will be redirected back to your company’s IdP. How does … Read more…

I work a good bit from my home office so obviously internet access is pretty important – so important that I have 2 carriers: Comcast via coax and AT&T via bonded pair DSL. As you may also know, I use the Sophos XG firewall home edition as a full-featured firewall and internet gateway – the conversion from Sophos UTM to XG was a bit tricky due to the UI of XG being…let’s just say not … Read more…

I started my professional technology career as a help desk administrator supporting a small healthcare organization that was still using something that was called Citrix Metaframe XP – it was the first time I had dealt with a real IT infrastructure, and also the first time I interacted with a Citrix product. That was nearly 13 years ago. After that, I interacted with Metaframe and XenApp (among other products) on and off until I started … Read more…

This post is probably not necessary because the configuration is pretty simple and easy to get it working – all you need are a NetScaler running 12.0 code or later, and a view connection server v7.0.1 or later. Currently, it is limited to proxying PCoIP traffic only. NetScaler Settings for PCoIP There are two parts to the configuration on the NetScaler: PCoIP VServer Profiles – located in NetScaler Gateway > Policies > PCoIP ; this is … Read more…

I’ve been talking and working a LOT with NetScaler SD-WAN lately – and I noticed that my first post (here) still has the name of Cloudbridge VWAN. If you don’t know what it is, the best way to explain it is with a short video. It’s cutting edge technology for your WAN!! So to make things right, and add to the previous post – I’ll be covering how to build a simple, initial SD-WAN configuration for … Read more…

These days, SAML authentication is mainstream and web services are expected to support it in some fashion or another; the SAML 2.0 standard is over 10 years old at this point! One of the key areas of focus for NetScaler is Authentication and Authorization and as such you would expect full support of SAML – and you’d be right. But if you’ve never worked with the SAML protocol, it can seem very daunting at first! … Read more…

Ever wish that you could just block all network traffic from known bad IP addresses? When you start to think about the logistics of this, it would be nice if you didn’t have to manage it either. If you have NetScaler Platinum, you’ve got both of your wishes – and as an added bonus, it’s free! That’s right, if you have a NetScaler Platinum appliance and you are running build 11.0 or later, you have an … Read more…

I ran into an issue recently on my Dell XPS 15 running Windows 10 where the BitLocker PIN entry text was missing. I have BitLocker TPM+PIN enabled so at boot or wakeup from hibernation, I am prompted to enter a PIN to unlock the drive. The screen was still the same blue color but the problem was that all of the text was missing – it was a blank blue screen. A workaround I found was to … Read more…

About the Author

Jacob 'Jake' Rutski works for Citrix on the Channel Architecture team. He holds several certifications from many technology vendors; and while all Citrix products are the majority of his focus, he does enjoy all things tech, automation, and storage - including FreeNAS\ZFS - and has been scripting everything in PowerShell lately...instead of VBScript. The content in this blog represent individual views, not those of Citrix